Megan’s cookie results from the 2014 Marin County Fair

As many of you know, last year was the first year I had ever entered any sort of baking contest and I was encouraged by my coworkers to enter my cookies in the Marin County Fair. As a result I snagged three blue ribbons for my snickerdoodle, chocolate chip and chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. I also got a third place ribbon for my lemon sugar cookies.

This year I opted to try out some new recipes and received two blue ribbons for my chocolate peppermint cookies and my low-fat applesauce chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. My lemon bars placed second and I got a fourth place ribbon for my oatmeal raisin chocolate chip pecan cookies.

While I didn’t do quite as well as last year, I’m still very pleased and happy the judges enjoyed my cookies. Below are photos of my 2014 entries.

My chocolate peppermint cookies won a blue ribbon in the 2014 Marin County Fair.(Megan Hansen/Marin IJ)